From Media to Social Media: Opinion Polling in the Current Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 255-261
Author(s):  
Anthony Wells
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Opinion Polling ◽  
Current Context

scholarly journals Spirituality and Social Media: Connecting the Dots

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (09) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Sonica Rautela ◽  
Adya Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Interactive Technologies ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Connecting The Dots ◽  
The Impact

Spirituality has gained the interest of all generations in the past few years. The concept of spirituality is very old but its popularity in the last few decades is worth noticing. Today spirituality is making inroads in different sectors like health sector, education, working culture etc. Social media on the other hand is a relatively new phenomenon which has changed the world forever. The impact and reach of social media is the maximum among all media tools. With the increased use of smart phone and other interactive technologies social media usage has grown with huge leaps and bounds.  The paper tries to find a link to connect the old with new in search of a principled life as advocated by spirituality. The paper explores the journey of Spirituality and its usefulness in current context. The paper then traces the rise and impact of social media. The paper concludes by proposing a conceptual model that depicts use of social media to educate about spirituality. The integrative approach identifies the positive aspects of social media to reach out to people.

Social Media Tools in Initial Teacher Education

2016 ◽  
pp. 797-822
Author(s):  
Liliana Mâţă
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
International Level ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Innovative Model ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Training Programmes

This chapter investigates the current context of integrating and exploiting social media tools in initial teacher education. The theoretical part highlights the latest approaches of social media on an international level from the perspective of the following elements: a) the concept of social media, b) the categories of tools, c) the implications of integrating social media technologies in the field of teacher education, and d) the configuration of innovative model of social media in the context of teacher training. The methodological part presents the results of a content analysis research of the way in which new social media tools may be used in initial teacher training. The research results contribute to establishing the main issues in this field as well as new solutions and directions for improving initial training programmes for teachers by means of social media tools.

Social Media Tools in Initial Teacher Education

2014 ◽  
pp. 129-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Mâţă
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
International Level ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Innovative Model ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Training Programmes

This chapter investigates the current context of integrating and exploiting social media tools in initial teacher education. The theoretical part highlights the latest approaches of social media on an international level from the perspective of the following elements: a) the concept of social media, b) the categories of tools, c) the implications of integrating social media technologies in the field of teacher education, and d) the configuration of innovative model of social media in the context of teacher training. The methodological part presents the results of a content analysis research of the way in which new social media tools may be used in initial teacher training. The research results contribute to establishing the main issues in this field as well as new solutions and directions for improving initial training programmes for teachers by means of social media tools.

scholarly journals Below the Radar: Private Groups, Locked Platforms, and Ephemeral Content—Introduction to the Special Issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 205630512198893
Author(s):  
Giovanni Boccia Artieri ◽  
Stefano Brilli ◽  
Elisabetta Zurovac
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Internet Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Internet Studies ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Media Society ◽  
Networked Publics

This special issue of Social Media + Society originates from the first AoIR Flashpoint Symposium, entitled “Below the Radar: Private Groups, Locked Platforms and Ephemeral Content.” The aim of this conference was to investigate platform-driven changes and emerging practices of everyday-life content production occurring “below the radar” of internet research, or outside of previous standards of data visibility and accessibility on which most internet studies have been based over the last decade. In the current context, online spaces seem to be heading toward more circumscribed and unsteady forms of publicness, which contrast with the platform affordances upon which the theorization of networked publics has been built. Private groups, locked platforms, and ephemeral contents are some of the challenges that require the development of new perspectives and research tools capable of adapting to this shifting environment. In this introduction, we will illustrate how the theme of “below the radar” has evolved since the initial call thanks to the confrontation with the researchers who participated in the conference, and this special issue, and we will introduce the nine articles that make up the collection. These articles, which combine different research disciplines and techniques, provide a map of some of the most urgent theoretical, ethical, and methodological issues concerning the current transformations of the visibility regimes of online social action.

Social Media Tools in Initial Teacher Education

2015 ◽  
pp. 533-559
Author(s):  
Liliana Mâţă
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
International Level ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Innovative Model ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Training Programmes

This chapter investigates the current context of integrating and exploiting social media tools in initial teacher education. The theoretical part highlights the latest approaches of social media on an international level from the perspective of the following elements: a) the concept of social media, b) the categories of tools, c) the implications of integrating social media technologies in the field of teacher education, and d) the configuration of innovative model of social media in the context of teacher training. The methodological part presents the results of a content analysis research of the way in which new social media tools may be used in initial teacher training. The research results contribute to establishing the main issues in this field as well as new solutions and directions for improving initial training programmes for teachers by means of social media tools.

scholarly journals Donald Trump’s “Political Incorrectness”: Neoliberalism as Frontstage Racism on Social Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630511773322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Gantt Shafer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Current Context

President Donald Trump’s popularized “political incorrectness” has become a signifier allowing for backstage, or overt, racist sentiments to become steadily normalized as logical in the public frontstage of political discourse and social media. This normalization is possible under the guise of neoliberal truth telling. In the current context of neoliberalism, touting postracial “colorblindness” and achieved equalities, there is subsequent Trump-backed whitelash against “political correctness,” or an acknowledgement of inequality, in US public discourse. Highly racialized public issues such as immigration and relations between the US and Mexico lead to conversations in which “politically incorrect” white-centric racialized language is used, which has roots in the narratives of neoliberal postracialism and white superiority. Thematic analyses of popular media examples of Trump’s anti-political correctness (PC) rhetoric alongside qualitatively gathered positive social media responses to his “incorrectness” on Twitter exemplify how neoliberal “postracial” ideology can be used inversely to solidify feelings of white superiority and overt racist beliefs.The continued normalization of Trump’s version of “politically incorrect” ideology and language both on and offline can lead to increased racial violence and the continued creation of neoliberal policy with racially disparate impacts.

scholarly journals Data, Technology & Social Media: Their Invasive Role in Contemporary Marketing

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Prakash Vel ◽  
Collins Agyapong Brobbey ◽  
Abdalrhman Salih ◽  
Hafsa Jaheer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
The Past ◽  
Changing Trends ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Depth Interviews

Marketers have paid a huge price for their inability to decipher which trend has come to stay and which one is a fad. Such a challenge has jeopardized the survival of blue-chip brands, as marketers anticipated in vain the end of existing red ocean strategies. Essentially, the traditional marketing strategies associated with the success of well-known brands in the past are losing their relevance in the current context. There is the need to identify and understand modern trends and their implications to marketing strategy development. In light of this, this study examines fourteen (14) fundamental game changing trends that are poised to impact the traditional practices and perceptions associated with marketing at the operational and strategic levels. The study presents the trends under three categories, the invasive role of technology, data, and social media, alongside looking at their impact on contemporary marketing. Each trend has been identified and analyzed based on in-depth interviews with industry experts as the primary source of data. Relevant data has also been given to present a holistic perspective on each trend.

scholarly journals Giving Community Psychology Away: A case for open access publishing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal Nicole Steltenpohl ◽  
Amy J. Anderson ◽  
Katherine Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Community Psychology ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Article Processing Charges

Amidst increased pressure for transparency in science, researchers and community members are calling for open access to study stimuli and measures, data, and results. These arguments coincidentally align with calls within community psychology to find innovative ways to support communities and increase the prominence of our field. This paper aims to (1) define the current context for community psychologists in open access publishing, (2) illustrate the alignment between open access publishing and community psychology principles, and (3) demonstrate how to engage in open access publishing using community psychology values. Currently, there are several facilitators (e.g. an increasing number of open access journals, the proliferation of blogs, and social media) and barriers (e.g. Article Processing Charges (APCs), predatory journals) to publishing in open access venues. Openly sharing our research findings aligns with our values of (1) citizen participation, (2) social justice, and (3) collaboration and community strengths. Community psychologists desiring to engage in open access publishing can ask journals to waive APCs, publish pre-prints, use blogs and social media to share results, and push for systemic change in a publishing system that disenfranchises researchers, students, and community members.

scholarly journals The Rebellious Social Network Reaction to COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-130
Author(s):  
Ștefana Cioban ◽  
Dragoş Vîntoiu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Social Media Analysis ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Natural Tendency ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Social Networking Tools

AbstractGathering social media content and analysing the heavy and unstructured text coming from posts, comments and reactions can come as a powerful tool in understanding how people react to the information they receive. In this article we present the results from a social media analysis of 10771 headlines, with their subsequent text bodies and comments posted in a subreddit destined for Romanians during the state of emergency declared in Romania, from March 16 to May 15, 2020. Our objective was to model the main topics debated by this targeted population of people that tend to use Reddit to discuss current issues and to identify the sentiment polarity towards these topics. As expected, Romanians are mostly concerned with their social condition in the context of the pandemic caused by CoVID-19, as our research has revealed a word frequency for the term “Coronavirus” prominently higher than any other preferred term. However, the analysis brings up a surprising turnaround as the overall sentiment of the text posted in this dataset is predominantly neutral with a higher frequency of positive posts compared to the negative ones. This was unforeseen by our initial expectations: a natural tendency to more negative posts than positive considering the context of the chosen study period. Moreover, when compared to the time series of the CoVID-19 infections and caused deaths in Romania, spikes of extremely high or low mean sentiment scores per day can be correlated to the fluctuations of the declared cases. Not only does this bring us closer to understanding the social impact of CoVID-19 in the current context, but the outcome of this analysis can be easily extrapolated for further investigations upon other social networking tools or for more in-depth analysis on our studied corpus.

Where Social Media Meets AAC

ASHA Leader ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Social Media
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